La Biennale di Venezia 2026, In Minor Keys
May 9–November 22, 2026
Various locations around Venice, Italy
The pioneering work of eight Creative Capital artists — Zoe Leonard (2000 Awardee), Nick Cave (2002 Awardee), Cauleen Smith (2008 Awardee), Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn (2012 Awardee), Carolina Caycedo (2015 Awardee), Carrie Schneider (2015 Awardee), Gala Porras-Kim (2015 Awardee), and Guadalupe Maravilla (2016 Awardee) — is on view at the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, In Minor Keys.
Working across photography, film, installation, performance, and multidisciplinary forms, these visionaries bring a collective depth of inquiry to the late Artistic Director Koyo Kouoh’s expansive ideas. Kouoh organized the exhibition not into discrete sections but around a set of conceptual motifs drawn from art that, in her words, acts deeply on the soul. These include Shrines, Procession, Schools, Rest, and Performances.
The exhibition will run from Saturday, May 9 to Sunday, November 22, 2026 (preview May 6, 7, 8) at the Giardini and the Arsenale venues, and in various locations around Venice.
Zoe Leonard
Analogue
Zoe Leonard is a New York–based artist working with photography, sculpture and installation.
Carolina Caycedo
Be Dammed
Carolina Caycedo is an artist who transcends institutional spaces to work in the social realm, where she participates in movements of territorial resistance, solidarity economies, and housing as a human right.
Guadalupe Maravilla
Silent Zoomorph
Guadalupe Maravilla makes work that acknowledges the historical and contemporary contexts of immigrant culture, notably belonging to Latinx communities.
Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn
TVC Communism
Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn is an artist and filmmaker based in Saigon and Los Angeles.
Carrie Schneider
Sphinx
Carrie Schneider is a Brooklyn-based artist working in photography and film.
Cauleen Smith
Remote Viewing and Other Ways of Seeing
Cauleen Smith is an interdisciplinary artist whose work reflects upon the everyday possibilities of the imagination.
Gala Porras-Kim
The Mute Object and Ancient Stories of Today
Gala Porras-Kim is an artist whose work questions how knowledge is acquired and tests the potential of the art object to function as an epistemological tool outside of its traditional, art historical context.